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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
I'm not an investment expert, but wouldn't there be virtually unlimited upside in an optimal hindsight strategy? I.e. you could use derivatives and other financial instruments to gain an arbitrary amount of leverage and hence retu
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
I'm wondering this too. I used to work at a DSP and we had to deal with a lot of clickfraud. Typically it took the form of: a shady publisher which has somewhat legitimate content and has a relationship with one or more SSPs. Then the
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
When ads are sold programatically (at least at the exchange level), they're almost always done on an impression basis, not a click basis. So by the time you see the ad, most of the financial exchange has already taken place. Some DSPs,
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
That was an interesting read; thanks for sharing. I'm always fascinated reading the latest exposes on the Venezuela saga.
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
Yeah, if you're referring to a mediocre replacement which no one uses, I guess there's diaspora: https://www.joindiaspora.com/
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
> this is the first incident where autopilot was involved with an inattentive driver The other (fatal) crash involved an inattentive driver watching a Harry Potter movie: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016&#
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
> For comparison, just look at how crazy expensive airfares are in the States for similar flights. I assume you're referring to the cost of a comparable domestic flight within the US. How can you credit the success of the EU for you
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
> The gotcha is that the moment you leave the country your TN is kaput, so you're effectively trapped in the USA until the green card process is complete. Not quite true. Once you've filed for adjustment of status (which you ca
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by ctrl_freak 10y ago
> The things that happen on Facebook don't matter. In my own experience, that's just not true. Facebook has facilitated lots of social interactions for me that simply would not have happened otherwise. Some examples: - I was do
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
All other things being equal, a weak currency is a good thing for a country. Unfortunately for China, a weak currency comes with a host of other problems, one of the most significant is capital outflow: http://www.bloomberg.com&#
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
The information becomes more private the more aggregated it gets. If you have a stalker following you around everywhere, you can get a restraining order against them. If detailed information of your locations were to be available online, yo
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
TSP is NP-hard -- we don't know if it's in NP (that is, we don't even know if there's a polynomial time algorithm to verify whether a proposed solution is optimal). The decision problem of TSP is NP-complete: > The
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
A couple of months ago, I bought a $300 Chinese knock-off Honda Win motorcycle (~100cc) in Ho Chi Minh City and did pretty much the same route as this guy, albeit with much fewer stops. It was pretty incredible. Definitely the best way to e
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
> Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through? Depends on the inventory. CPM (cost per thousand impressions) and CPC (cost per click) pricing models are both common in the online advertising industry,
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
"Prescription drug abuse and addiction kill far more people in the U.S. every year than all illegal drugs combined." https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wicked-deeds/201404/pre...
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
> is creating ozone a bad thing? At the ground level, yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone "Ozone is a powerful oxidant (far more so than dioxygen) and has many industrial and consumer applications related
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by ctrl_freak 11y ago
The question isn't whether In-Q-Tel supports the CIA. It's whether Facebook was funded by In-Q-Tel, and even the article that Wikipedia uses as a citation doesn't seem too sure how strong of a connection there is: > The se
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by ctrl_freak 12y ago
Your DNS is probably cached and hasn't updated yet.
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by ctrl_freak 12y ago
"Computer science" can mean many different things, but theoretical CS is largely considered a branch of mathematics. While there is some 'code', it has all of the same formalisms, equations and proofs. CS papers can be j
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by ctrl_freak 12y ago
> If they have no data on you, I assume ad exchanges supply default advertisements, or there are bidders on default ads? To be clear on what happens here: the ad exchange itself isn't usually interested in identifying you per se, it
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by ctrl_freak 12y ago
> Does anyone have any other reading recommendations on this topic, or advertising recommendation in general? Sure. What's being discussed in this article is Real Time Bidding: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-
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by ctrl_freak 12y ago
> Is there any historical evidence of disclosures from the NSA to the open-source community? I would suspect that NSA would want to conceal the fact that the disclosure came from them.
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
This is probably the address in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:82.148.97.69/header
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
My anecdotal experience at Guangzhou (2 months ago), flying internationally, was the opposite. Didn't have to remove shoes, didn't have to take my laptop out of my bag. I was going to remove my belt before going through the metal
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
Couldn't that be accomplished with a bluetooth connection from your mobile phone? Maybe not as effective as a bracelet, but it probably could have gotten the job done in this case.
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Colorado Marijuana Dispensary Uses Bitcoin to Evade Federal Laws(coindesk.com)
2 points by ctrl_freak 13y ago|0 comments
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
How is that any worse security than keeping money in a bank account?
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
> The math doesn't add up. I would imagine they pay less (in bitcoins) now than they did, say, a year ago.
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
> Why does Xerox need an entire A block, why do Apple, BMW? They don't, but retroactively taking away their /8s would be extremely complicated and expensive for them, not to mention that there is very little benefit from prolon
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by ctrl_freak 13y ago
You would think more Americans would fly to India to get expensive medical procedures done. Or are there other issues that need to be overcome to do this?

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